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August 27, 2004

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Lars, the Dog of the Day
Name: Lars
Age: Two years old
Gender: Male Breed: Samoyed
Home: Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
 
   Lars is an incredibly sweet and goofy guy. He's quite large for a Samoyed and has a huge, fluffy coat in the winter. He's just a giant puff ball. He looks like White Fang, Dog of the North, but he's just a big teddy bear. The strange thing about Lars is that he's such a scaredy cat. I tell him that most people would be afraid of him, because he looks like a white wolf. But when people he doesn't know come over, he runs and hides behind the couch!

    With us, though, he's just a cuddle bug. He loves belly rubs, rawhide, fruit (especially bananas!), and all his squeaky toys. He also loves our two cats and always tries to get them to play with him, but they just stare at him as if to say "We're cats--we don't do that!"

    Lars loves to run and wrestle with his doggy friends at the park, but at home he's a big old couch potato. The very special thing about Lars is that he's very talkative, and will "Aroo, aroo" when he wants a belly rub or to play, and will emit a sort of growly howl when he wants the cats to play. He's still a big puppy and we're hoping he will soon outgrow his unfortunate habit of eating our furniture and tiptoeing into the kids' rooms on "steal and destroy" missions. But despite this one bad habit, he brings so much love and joy into our lives. When our previous dog died, my daughter said that our house was too quiet and sad without a dog. Lars brings lots of love, fun, and silliness into our home. We love him to pieces!!

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